On several occasions, Jim called me personally to say that he thought the show had gone downhill, that the callers were no longer able to keep up with him, and that he planned to quit listening. That includes his own assessment: “I don’t want to brag, but I’ve been known to be the best caller on the show,” he told me multiple times. Jim from Tuscaloosa is, by most accounts, the show’s best caller. She’s an Auburn fan, and here she is despondent but unbowed in the wake of her team’s 49-0 loss to Alabama in this year’s Iron Bowl: She also might be its loudest, regardless of gender. Tammy is the show’s most prominent female caller. The clip below showcases his understated style (relative to the rest of the callers), as well as the topic that, second to football gossip, most drives the show: squabbles between callers. His pitch and cadence rarely change, his volume rarely escalates-he sounds a bit like he’s stoned-and he has one of the show’s wider-ranging vocabularies. Here he is yelling at fans of Auburn University, Alabama’s chief rival, before the 2010 Iron Bowl, the annual game between the two schools: Legend is an Alabama fan who became notable on the show for claiming that he spent time in prison for murder. Below are clips-warning, foul language ahead-from the show’s most prominent, and notorious, callers: That may be so, but after several months of listening to the show, I find myself still coming back to the bar, hoping that my favorite regulars stop by.

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